Agroaldea
The Dutch company Konreg Engineering Int. will begin testing in the Pier Village next week with a barge-art.
Not everything had to be negative for tomato Village is suffering one of its worst harvests, due to the closure of the road GC 200 last day 9 November. The only alternative to this end is the continuation of the GC 200 in sense Mogán, to link to the highway to the port of La Luz. However, this alternative is causing the tomato villager not arrive in time to be shipped and, many times, is put ashore.
Responsible for the two companies producing La Aldea, main economic activity of the municipality, They recognize that the alternative to closing is a real 'ordeal’ which is assuming, in addition to an economic drain, a loss of competitiveness for the production villager.
What should be a route of two hours becomes a 'martyrdom’ nearly five hours, where heavy trucks are facing intermittent cuts for last minute works in this way. In addition, the authorities have not restricted the traffic while cyclists closed the stretch north, It is assuming considerable delays and significant breaks in motor overloading them.
All traffic diverted to the south, increasing vehicle slows down progress in a way that is not ready for it. But the worst part of the journey occurs on the highway, where continuous accidents cause mile-long lines that delay arrival at the dock and boat loss.
At first we called to ask for an extra hour in the ship's departure so we can send tomatoes, but it never was an hour; They were two or three and the cost we had to stand by waiting for longshoremen and ship did not compensate, so the tomatoes are grounded, says one of the villagers producers.
Fed up with this situation and endanger the harvest before seeing a reality that seems unlikely solution, the village enterprises have been put to work and have considered several alternatives for your tomato reaches the dock like the rest.
One of the most viable solutions is the cabotage. After contacting several specialized shipping in this shipping service, Dutch Konreg Engineering International will begin making practices barge art DMT 340 next week.
It is a craft 52 meters in length and weighing 2.786 tonnes which has a load capacity 4.000 tons. The platform incorporates an articulated crane with a gyroscopic arm that can raise 5,5 tons. -Diesel two dual motors and liquefied gas- develop 900 kW / cylinder which gives great stability, speed and reliability, making the journey from the village to Las Palmas in less than an hour.
The length of the arm of the crane and the shallow draft of the boat allow you to operate 20 meters dock structure, so the docking is not necessary inside. Villagers producers Canarios Ports handled with the 'exceptional' permission to perform the operation and 'save' this harvest.
In addition to holding talks with the Government of the Canary Islands, producers will meet this week with the Government Delegate to request compensation for the carriage of this service as a smaller island if it were, appealing to the double insularity suffering.
We can not take much more of this situation encysts and occurs just when the harvest is more important. Shipments Christmas and New Year are what largely determine the outcome of the campaign. If we are not able to make good numbers in recent weeks, the rest does not make sense. This is to take advantage of good market prices by shortages of fruit and save the economy of the entire municipality, said producers.
Departure by sea, the same as was done for much of the last century when we were also isolated, It will allow us to transport fluid and not will suffer the works, or suffer the overhead traffic, jams, cyclists and other details, conclude.
If you've come this far reading this news, Agroaldea wish you a happy day of the Holy Innocents. Even so, hopefully we serve to cushion the blow reflection that is taking the villager tomato campaign.